CHA Seungean

CHA Seungean (1974)

Cha’s work appears at first glance to consist of painting on canvas. However, on closer inspection, we discover that her works are actually formed of textiles. After graduating from Hongik University with a degree in textile art and completing a M.F.A. in painting and drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago, she has continued to explore painting through the perspective of textile art with her woven canvases. The artist's current interest is to look back to the legacy of the passionately experimental 20^th-century art scene, and to interweave various elements of art from this period across borders between East and West, eyesight and touch, mind and material.

EDUCATION

2010 M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

2002 M.F.A., Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

1999 B.F.A., Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Monochrome Swatch, 63Art, Korea

2016 up coming / Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

2015 Crossing Plane: Unit, Layer, Nostalgia, Ilmin Museum of Art, Korea